Thomas W Hudson

8615741, Dec 24, 2013

Dec 24, 2009

12/647271

Thomas R. Hudson - Research Triangle Park NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/44

717125, 717123, 717124, 717126, 717127, 717128, 717129

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for improved tracking of software item defects. The approach involves maintaining defect attributes for a particular software bug. Certain attributes are user-defined while others are derived. Attributes may be, for example, questions, requests for action, requests for approval, or others. The primary attributes and derived attributes for the bug are associated with users that are associated with the software bug, and a determination is made as to whether or not action is required by the individual users for the software bug using the attributes. If action is required, the user is alerted that action is required for the software bug. The actions and/or bugs may be presented to the user using an inbox format. The inbox may sort actions based on priority, what type of attribute is relevant to the user, or using other categorizations.

20050039108, Feb 17, 2005

Aug 15, 2003

10/641574

Thomas Hudson - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F015/00

715500000

A method, system and apparatus for fast tag entry in a multimodal markup language document editor. A multimodal markup language document editor which has been configured for fast tag entry can include multiple views, the views including at least one source view and at least one WYSIWYG view. A fast tag entry processor can be coupled both to the WYSIWYG view and the source view. The processor can be configured to create a buffer such as a pop-up source window over the WYSIWYG view through which a tag definition can be textually specified without requiring a context switch to the source view. The processor further can be configured to insert the textually specified tag definition in a markup language document in the editor. Finally, the processor can be configured to cause the WYSIWYG view to re-render a representation of the markup language document to reflect the textually specified tag definition.

20050137781, Jun 23, 2005

Dec 18, 2003

10/739679

Thomas Hudson - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F019/00
G08G001/00

701117000, 701119000

A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing traffic information in a data processing system in a vehicle using peer to peer connections. A traffic situation is identified. A traffic data packet is generated in response to identifying the traffic situation. The traffic data packet includes traffic information and an area of influence. A traffic data packet is transmitted to another vehicle using a peer to peer connection based on a location of the vehicle with respect to the area of influence.

20050212818, Sep 29, 2005

Mar 29, 2004

10/811742

Thomas Hudson - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F009/45

345619000

A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for determining an edge for inversion in a cyclic compound directed graph. A plurality of graph nodes of a graph are evaluated for generation of a first node order subset pair. A determination that the graph requires a recursive evaluation for completing node ordering of the plurality of graph nodes is made. The graph is divided into a plurality of graph partitions, and respective node order subset pairs are generated for the graph partitions.

20060224304, Oct 5, 2006

Mar 29, 2005

11/093336

Thomas Randall Hudson - Cary NC, US
Michael Whitney Sorenson - Prairie Village KS, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 19/00

701202000

The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for routing multiple paths through polygonal obstacles. In a preferred embodiment, the method begins by offsetting the initial paths through the obstacles from the obstacles to form adjusted paths. If it is determined that any adjusted path encounters a new intersection, the adjusted path or paths are modified to form revised paths. The vertices of each obstacle are labeled. All the revised and all the adjusted paths are sorted. Then, according to their sorted order, the revised and the adjusted paths are reconstructed to form offset paths.

20070083812, Apr 12, 2007

Oct 7, 2005

11/246415

Thomas Hudson - Cary NC, US
Silenio Quarti - Kanata, CA

G06F 3/00

715700000

A system, method and computer program product are provided for controlling the operation of mnemonics so that mnemonics that are not in the user's notion of the active context (i.e., mnemonics that are not in the active pane in which the user is currently working) are blocked from operation. When an attempt is made to invoke a mnemonic, a determination is made as to whether or not the requested mnemonic is located within an inactive pane in the GUI. If the requested mnemonic is within an inactive pane, then the mnemonic request is blocked. If the requested mnemonic is somewhere other than in an inactive pane, then the attempt to invoke the mnemonic is allowed to succeed. The above-described control operations “follow” the active pane, so that if a user switches the active pane, these control functions operate in the newly-designated active pane.

20070186175, Aug 9, 2007

Feb 9, 2006

11/350421

Thomas Hudson - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 9/00

715764000, 715777000, 715810000, 715784000

The present invention provides a user interface for a tabbed pane. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: displaying a plurality of ordered tabs in a tab folder; selecting one of the tabs; scrolling through the plurality of tabs; and docking the selected tab within the tab folder if the scrolling will cause the selected tab to disappear from the tab folder.

20070186183, Aug 9, 2007

Feb 6, 2006

11/347861

Thomas Hudson - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 3/048

715810000, 715853000

The present invention provides a user interface for presenting a palette of items. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: arranging a plurality of items into a plurality of groups, each group including at least two items; and selectively displaying each group in either an expanded state, wherein all of the items in the group are displayed, or in a collapsed state, wherein only a most recently used item of the group is displayed.